[Fedora-xen] No success installing Windows XP in fully-virtualized domain

[Daniel Tuijnman]

Hi,

I tried installing Windows XP in a fully-virtualized guest domain, using
Fedora Core 6, but had no success.
The installation would never proceed beyond the reboot halfway in the
install process; sometimes even abort earlier.
I tried this both with virt-manager, and with hand-crafted config files,
fiddling with all possible variations of acpi and apic settings.

Using a successfully installed Windows domain appears to be no problem,
though - even with both acpi and apic turned on.
I managed to create a Windows XP domain with the free version of
XenEnterprise without any problems. Is there anything special about the Xen
implementation in this product? I ask, because it struck me when I tried to
install Windows 2000 - which they say they don't support - all went fine,
except that all dialog texts in the installation process were blacked out..
Using it is no option for me, because I want to use the machine both for
various servers and as my desktop machine.
(I also tried Debian Etch, but wasn't successful either...)

Does anyone have suggestions what I could do:
- to be able to give a more meaningful report what goes wrong?
- to create other Windows domains in the future?

The hardware I'm using:
- AMD 64X2 5000+
- Asus M2N-SLI deluxe motherboard (nVidia nForce 5 chipset)
  I also upgraded the BIOS to the latest version, just to be sure.
- 2 Gb RAM

Greetings,
Daniel

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